Hayley Mitchell Haugen holds a Ph.D. in 20th Century American Literature from Ohio University and an MFA in poetry from the University of Washington. She is currently Professor of English at Ohio University Southern, where she teaches courses in composition, American literature, and creative writing. Her poetry, creative nonfiction, and critical essays have appeared, or are forthcoming, in The Brock Review, Proteus, Rattle, Spillway, Rise Up Review, and many other print and online journals, and the critical anthologies, The Body in Medical Culture; On the Literary Nonfiction of Nancy Mairs; and Stephen King’s Contemporary Classics: Reflections on the Modern Master of Horror, and others. Her full-length poetry collection is Light & Shadow, Shadow & Light (Main Street Rag, 2018), and her chapbooks are What the Grimm Girl Looks Forward To (Finishing Line, 2016) and The Blue Wife Poems (Kelsay Books, 2022).